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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [Wish] Title, Address and Date format
From:       Yukiko Bando <ybando () k6 ! dion ! ne ! jp>
Date:       2007-01-30 14:28:21
Message-ID: 200701302328.21093.ybando () k6 ! dion ! ne ! jp
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Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> > kdelibs/kdelibs.po
> > #: kdecore/kcalendarsystemgregorian.cpp:156 kdecore/klocale.cpp:591
> > msgid ""
> > "_: of January\n"
> > "of Jan"
> >
> > If it is used in combination with other strings as in "the third week
> > of Jan" or "3rd of Jan", I'd like to translate it as a whole, which
> > would be "1月の第3週" or "1月3日" in Japanese.
>
> having looked into this problem, this is an issue in
> KLocale::formatDate(). this seems to be the only place (other than the
> few copies of KCalendarSystem in svn =/ ) that it is really used.
>
> working off of the date format string, it just marches along the key
> codes one after the other; there is not allowance in the date format
> string to rearrange the order of the key codes based on the language.
> and this is only for languages with noun declension apparently.

I don't understand well but there is no noun declension in Japanese.

> so .. all that said: are these strings good enough for Japanese given
> that they are only used to format dates according to the date format?
> e.g. it doesn't look like it should ever be used by random arrangements
> such as "the 8th banana of January"

If the string will never be used in a visible place, that's fine with 
me. :)

Thank you. 

Yukiko 
 
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